Leif Ove Andsnes, The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Grete Pedersen – Franz Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works (2025) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Leif Ove Andsnes, The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Grete Pedersen – Franz Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works (2025)
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On his latest album “Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works”, releasing on Aprill 11 2025 for Sony Classical, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes unveils the often forgotten side of the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt – the sacred music that offers a more intimate picture of the man and his deeply held faith.

With acclaimed vocal ensemble the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Andsnes has recorded Liszt’s remarkable late work Via Crucis (The Way of the Cross’) for choir and piano. The pianist completes his all-Liszt album with the solo piano work Consolations and two movements from the composer’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses.

Franz Liszt is often described as the ‘first virtuoso’ – a superstar pianist and composer who invented the piano recital and whose fame and following in the nineteenth century were unprecedented. Much of Liszt’s reputation hangs on sweeping virtuosic showpieces so technically challenging that only Liszt could play them.

But that is only half the story. In 1847, at the age of just 35, Liszt retired from public performance to focus on writing and teaching. Thirteen years later he took another step back, taking Holy Orders and embarking upon a new life of religious devotion and creative introspection.

Tracklist:

1-1. Leif Ove Andsnes – Vexilla regis (03:49)
1-2. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station I: Jesus wird zum Tode verdammt (01:01)
1-3. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station II: Jesus trägt sein Kreuz (02:13)
1-4. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station III: Jesus fällt zum ersten Mal (01:10)
1-5. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station IV: Jesus begegnet seiner heiligen Mutter (02:12)
1-6. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station V: Simon von Kyrene hilft Jesus das Kreuz tragen (02:29)
1-7. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station VI: Sancta Veronica (01:56)
1-8. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station VII: Jesus fällt zum zweiten Mal (01:10)
1-9. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station VIII: Die Frauen von Jerusalem (02:13)
1-10. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station IX: Jesus fällt zum dritten Mal (01:13)
1-11. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station X: Jesus wird entkleidet (01:30)
1-12. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station XI: Jesus wird ans Kreuz geschlagen (00:51)
1-13. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station XII: Jesus stirbt am Kreuze (05:58)
1-14. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station XIII: Jesus wird vom Kreuz genommen (03:19)
1-15. Leif Ove Andsnes – Station XIV: Jesus wird ins Grab gelegt (04:39)
1-16. Leif Ove Andsnes – No. 1 in E Major. Andante con moto (01:26)
1-17. Leif Ove Andsnes – No. 2 in E Major. Un poco più mosso (02:52)
1-18. Leif Ove Andsnes – No. 3 in D-Flat Major. Lento placido (04:10)
1-19. Leif Ove Andsnes – No. 4 in D-Flat Major. Quasi adagio (02:41)
1-20. Leif Ove Andsnes – No. 5 in E Major. Andantino (02:07)
1-21. Leif Ove Andsnes – No. 6 in E Major. Allegretto sempre cantabile (02:35)
1-22. Leif Ove Andsnes – No. 9. Andante lagrimoso (07:13)
1-23. Leif Ove Andsnes – No. 8. Miserere, d’après Palestrina. Largo (03:32)

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